Concentrations of Poverty and Distressed Neighbourhoods in Canada - January 1997
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6. How Do Distressed and Near-Distressed Neighbourhoods Differ?
With few exceptions "near-distressed" neighbourhoods31 in the Québec City, Montréal and Winnipeg CMAs exhibit very similar (although usually slightly lower) percentages to those of distressed neighbourhoods on the indicators examined in the previous section.
In Québec City the only significant differences are a slightly lower proportion of housing stock requiring major repairs (7.3% vs. 9.7%) and a slightly lower percentage of the 15+ population with less than a high school education (48.3% vs. 51.7%).
In Montréal, there are two major differences. The proportion of recent immigrants is much higher (11.3% vs. 3.7%) in near-distressed than in distressed neighbourhoods and the proportion of the housing stock constructed before 1946 is much lower (31.0% vs. 49.6%), although still well above the average for the CMA (16.2%).
In Winnipeg the percentage of renters in near-distressed neighbourhoods is significantly below that in distressed neighbourhoods (64.5% vs. 71.3%) as are the shares of persons of Aboriginal origin and recent immigrants (11.1% vs. 16.8% and 9.4% vs. 15.0% respectively).
31 That is, those meeting four of the five criteria for distressed neighbourhoods.
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